Subterfuge

(of Exhibit Vav fame)

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To play with subterfuge is to play with fire. Thus, pyromania:

tub refuges—for when bathroom fixtures play hide-and-seek.
stub refuge—that little machine that eats your ticket.
refuge tubs—where other stuff hides, I guess.
bust refuge—better known as a bra.
bert’s fugue—a favorite composition here; also, perhaps, the mental condition from which Ernie’s poor buddy suffers, not unlike Ginny Weasley’s erstwhile plight, though that was occasioned not by stress, but by You Know Who.)
fur tee bugs—problems with shaggy golf implements
bugs fer tue—a favorite order for lovebirds. Ones who actually are birds. And who can’t spell.

Sadly, I did not come to play. English was not always below Dunster; indeed—and also sadly—subterfuge preceeded it:

Subterfuge
Rebus fuget, "the rebus will escape," or—and only history will tell which is meant (“will,” for history is not all past)—"he will escape with the things."

We see that subterfuge is not just a constant of the past, but also a bringer of omens. In a word, prophecy, or, prophecy in a word. Subterfuge. S-U-B-T-E-R-F-U-G-E. Subterfuge.

O subterfuge in Dunster!
Rei fugent sub Dunstero, "the things will flee below Dunster"
—or will they flee Below Dunster? A world of difference—will Dunster be a refuge or a tyrant? As ever, only history will tell, but be assured:
it will tell through subterfuge.